Alicia Pizzimbono
# Alicia Pizzimbono

Alicia Pizzimbono de Nicola (born 1930, Buenos Aires) was the First Lady of Ecuador.

## Biography

Alicia Pizzimbono de Nicola was born in 1930 in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires. She met Alfredo Poveda in 1949 while he was a scholar at the Río Santiago Naval School [es] and wed him on 21 December 1950. Two days later, Poveda graduated as a lieutenant and took Pizzimbono with him back to Ecuador, where their two daughters were born.

### First Lady of Ecuador

On 11 January 1976, the Ecuadorian Armed Forces forced the resignation of military dictator Guillermo Rodríguez. Poveda, along with Army and Air Force heads Guillermo Durán Arcentales [es] and Luis Leoro Franco [es] formed the Supreme Council of Government, which would govern the country until 1979.

On 8 October 1976, Pizzimbono traveled to Kiel, Germany for the ceremonial launch of Ecuador's first submarine the BAE Shyri, named after the First Lady's godmother.

## Citations

* ↑ Sánchez Bravo, Mariano (4 October 2015). "Almirante Alfredo Poveda y el retorno a la democracia". Diario Expreso (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 June 2018.
* ↑ Sánchez Bravo, Marino. "40 años de patrullaje submarino". Diario Expreso (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 June 2018.

| Preceded byAída Judith León | First Lady of Ecuador 1976–1979 | Succeeded byMartha Bucaram |
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